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Quotes About Grief

She who was the heart And hinge of all our learnings and our loves: She left us destitute and, as we might, Trooping together.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
~ James O'Barr
Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.
~ Earl A Grollman
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
~ Billy Graham
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
~ Madame de Stael
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
~ Robert E. Lee
For grief is crowned with consolation.
~ William Shakespeare
I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
~ Yoko Ono
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
~ Nigella Lawson
Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.
~ Marcel Proust
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
~ Heinrich Heine
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.
~ Lord Chesterfield
We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories
~ Margaret Jones
A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.
~ Mona Caird
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.
~ Auliq Ice
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
~ Dean Koontz
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...
~ Malala Yousafzai
It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.
~ Amitav Ghosh